Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

online subscription service: hey you need to renew and update your card info

me: okay. here are my magic numbers.

service: no. this card is European

me: yes, I rather went out of my way to pay extra for a mastercard after moving to Europe because American sites take those without being weird about it. yet you’re being weird about it

service: because the last time you renewed, you paid in the currency trusted by God Himself, the American dollar. Now you claim to only have socialist Euros

me: yes?? so?? do you think I got an account with a European bank to defraud you, a sixty dollar annual subscription service???

service: you can’t say you’re in America one year and in Europe the next. that doesn’t make sense. no one has ever done that

me: … can I gift a subscription to myself?

service: yes of course. thank you for gifting a subscription to this stalwart American, mysterious European lady

"The Prime Minister has to realize, the US will now be lead by a president whose values we do not share, and who has zero respect for US allies."

These are the words of @pelle, party leader of the Danish party Enhedslisten, who recommends Denmark puts a coming deal about US airbases in Denmark on ice, as a consequence of Trump's offensive words about Greenland.

Source (in Danish):

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/dragsted-efterlyser-svar-fra-statsministeren-og-vil-stoppe-usa-aftale

Oh man, I'm glad the planet is being cooked alive for this useful technology.

"We are not a #Russian rag": thousands of people protested against #Fico's policies in #Bratislava, #Aktuality.

About 4,000 people protested in #Bratislava today, expressing their dissatisfaction with Prime Minister #Robert_Fico's foreign policy. Demonstrators waved #EU and #Slovak flags and chanted, "We are not #Russia" and "#Fico, go to #Moscow."

Join | #WARSHAL ✙

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

#Russia underestimated #Chechnya and was defeated in what later became known as the First #Chechen_War.

Later, #Russia learned from its mistakes and won the Second #Chechen_War, levelling #Grozny to the ground.

#Ukraine needs reliable functioning security guarantees for a lasting peace, not just a ceasefire that will allow #Russia to attack again. This is of the utmost importance not just for #Ukraine but for #European security in general.

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal

Malicious parties have taken over popular Chrome plugins to push malware.

I can confirm it is not just Cyberhaven plugin. We dont have a list of impacted plugins, just reports of machines reaching out to the reported malicious domains from Chrome. Still gathering informaiton.

https://therecord.media/hackers-target-vpn-ai-extensions-google-chrome-malicious-updates

https://x.com/jaimeblascob/status/1872445912175534278

Edited to add additional IOCs (IP of C&C and Domains):

149.28.124[.]84

bookmarkfc.info,
cyberhavenext.pro,
parrottalks.info,
uvoice.live,
vpncity.live

castorus.info, censortracker.pro, ext.linewizeconnect.com, iobit.pro, moonsift.store, readermodeext.info, wayinai.live, yescaptcha.pro and yujaverity.info

https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/hackers-launch-supply-chain-attack-against-chrome-extensions-a-27173

#chrome #supplychain #malware #threatintel

'when we have people like Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Kemi Badenoch, and all the others in UK politics who believe in this nonsense view of growth at all costs and corporate maximization as their priority.

People should be the epicentre of their concern, but they're not.'

It’s time to talk economics https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01/02/its-time-to-talk-economics/

I'm fully aware that this is a total waste of my time, but given today's news about an Apple settlement relating to Siri audio recordings I wrote this blog post about why I still don't think that companies are spying on us through our phone's microphones: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/2/they-spy-on-you-but-not-like-that/

probably one of the weirder microsoft support articles i've seen

Want to start the new year with a good deed? Play some dope short IF games and vote :D

https://itch.io/jam/if-short-games-showcase-2024/entries

#interactivefiction #sgs #shortgameshowcase #visualnovel #parser #indiegame

5 reasons I don't live in Rīga anymore. #Winter #Snow #Sigulda #Latvia

tfw you've verbed too many nouns

"Numbers don't lie. Pastors do, but not numbers." ~ Michael J. Stern

Year 2025. The only “square year” that most of us will see: 45^2 = 2025. The previous one was 1936 (44^2) and the next one will be 2116 (46^2).

Also
(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)^2 = 2025
and
1^3+2^3+3^3+4^3+5^3+6^3+7^3+8^3+9^3 = 2025

#2025 #year2025 #math #numbers